コンソールでの特別なキーボードキー

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コンソールを使用するときは、ホットキーを使って特殊な文字を打ち込むことができます。さらに、一連の文字列やエスケープシーケンスを入力することも可能です。従って、コマンドと改行のエスケープ文字からなる文字列を連続して打ち込んだ場合、コマンドが実行されます。

これを行うにはキーマップを編集するのが一つの方法ですが、キーマップは要注意のファイルであり、キーマップが入っているパッケージが更新されると書きなおされてしまいます。そのためファイルの編集は推奨されません。個人的なキーマップと既存のキーマップを統合するほうが良いでしょう。loadkeys ユーティリティを使います。

カスタムキーマップの作成

まず、キーマップファイルを作成してください。キーマップファイルはどこに置いてもかまいませんが、/usr/local のディレクトリ階層を真似るという方法があります:

# mkdir -p /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps
# vim /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/personal.map

As a side note, it is worth noting that such a personal keymap is useful also to redefine the behaviour of keys already treated by the default keymap: when loaded with loadkeys, the directives in the default keymap will be replaced when they conflict with the new directives and conserved otherwise. This way, only changes to the keymap must be specified in the personal keymap.

ヒント: You can also edit an existing keymap located in the /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/ directory tree. Keymaps have an .map.gz extension, for example us.map.gz is an American keymap. Just copy the keymap to /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/personal.map.gz and gunzip it.

ディレクティブの追加

Two kinds of directives are required in this personal keymap. First of all, the keycode directives, which matches the format seen in the default keymaps. These directives associate a keycode with a keysym. Keysyms represent keyboard actions. The actions available include outputting character codes or character sequences, switching consoles or keymaps, booting the machine, and many other actions. A complete list can be obtained with

# dumpkeys -l

Most keysyms are them are intuitive. For example, to set key 112 to output an 'e', the directive will be:

keycode 112  = e

To set key 112 to output a euro symbol, the directive will be:

keycode 112 = euro

Some keysym are not immediately connected to a keyboard actions. In particular, the keysyms prefixed by a capital F and one to three digits (F1-F246) constituting a number greater than 30 are always free. This is useful directing a hotkey to output a sequence of characters and other actions:

keycode 112 = F70

Then, F70 can be bound to output a specific string:

string F70 = "Hello"

When key 112 is pressed, it will output the contents of F70. In order to execute a printed command in a terminal, a newline escape character must be appended to the end of the command string. For example, to enter a system into hibernation, the following keymap is added:

string F70 = "sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate\n"

その他の例

• To make the Right Alt key same as Left Alt key (for Emacs), use the following line in your keymap. It will include the file /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/include/linux-with-two-alt-keys.inc, check it for details.

include "linux-with-two-alt-keys"

• To swap CapsLock with Escape (for Vim), remap the respective keycodes:

keycode 1 = Caps_Lock
keycode 58 = Escape

• CapsLock を Control キーとして使うには、以下のキーコードをリマップします:

keycode 58 = Control

• To swap CapsLock with Left Control key, remap the respective keycodes:

keycode 29 = Caps_Lock
keycode 58 = Control

変更の保存

In order to make use of the personal keymap, it must be loaded with loadkeys:

$ loadkeys /usr/local/share/kbd/keymaps/personal.map

However this keymap only active for the current session. In order to load the keymap at boot, specify the full path to the file in KEYMAP variable in /etc/vconsole.conf. The file does not have to be gzipped as the official keymaps provided by kbd.